(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
(v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.
(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
(n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(3) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(4) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(6) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(7) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
(8) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(9) Directional responses did not differ from the standard when rattle bursts were repeated at a rate of 20 per second for 1 s (experiment 1).
(10) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(11) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(12) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(13) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(14) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(15) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(16) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
(17) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
(18) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
(19) A telecom engineer who has not been able to find work, he rattled off statistics: unemployment in the province is 42% – the highest in Spain – rising to 69% for those under the age of 30.
(20) Paresh Davdra, co-founder of RationalFX, said the situation was rattling investors and raising parallels with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Rattler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rattles.
Example Sentences:
(1) We cannot afford to let them treat us like properties of the state,” said Ollie, a 24-year-old water protector whose partner, Michael Markus, known as Rattler, was recently taken into custody by federal officers.
(2) He spent last season with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Class A Midwest League, hitting .243 with four homers and 29 RBIs in 68 games.
(3) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Markus, aka Rattler.
(5) Photograph: Liminal Films The charges against Rattler, Angry Bird and three others could carry up to 15 years in federal prison and stem from a standoff with police on 27 October 2016 during which law enforcement deployed armored vehicles and pepper spray and ultimately arrested 141 people.
(6) They do this purposely to break us down Ollie, 24-year-old water protector Ollie said: “They’re going after Rattler to make him a poster child and a scapegoat.
(7) Annabel Mullion was painted with her shaggy-haired dog Rattler and reappears seven years later with a pregnant belly in Expecting the Fourth 2005 (only 10x15cm), and in a larger etching, limbs still like a thoroughbred, as described by one of Freud's favourite authors, Baudelaire: "vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her".
(8) There are no leaders.” Sandra Freeman, attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, who is representing Rattler, said he was being prosecuted under a law that is rarely used in federal court, passed in 1968 to control the Black Liberation Movement and Vietnam war protests.
(9) Some supporters have compared Rattler and Red Fawn Fallis , another demonstrator taken into custody last year, to famous indigenous protesters such as Leonard Peltier , whose activism has led to decades of federal incarceration.
(10) Rattler’s purpose of being at camp was to make a safe space for people.” Rattler, who is Lakota Oglala and a US Marine veteran, has also consistently been cooperative and compliant with law enforcement, according to Ollie, who noted that he had willingly turned himself in on a state warrant and that the two of them had recently paid a $10,000 cash bond so he could be released.